Word: shimmeringly
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Like “Your Picture,” most of these songs fall under the category of character sketch. Camera Obscura write pithy portraits, and their literary leanings fit nicely with the chamber-pop accompaniment. Flutes, strings, and bells sparkle and shimmer on most tracks, combining with surf-rock bass lines to produce the overwhelming impression that this music comes from a different...
Pamela Lipson can be forgiven for sounding a bit like the announcer in that classic comedy sketch who praises a new miracle foam: Shimmer is a floor wax! And a dessert topping! Get Lipson going, and the 36-year-old co-founder and president of Imagen will gush about how her product can distinguish faces in a crowd, recommend makeup, diagnose diseases and spot imperfections on a circuit board. What Lipson's six-year-old company--a spin-off of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)--really does is make software that can find subtle similarities and differences in images...
...neglected. There is no sanitation and there are no garbage cans on the street, so waste is tossed generously throughout. The entire city is coated with a sandy yellowish film, deposited by dust storms and left unwashed. The most vivid color comes from the brilliant red sunsets that shimmer on the water and the mosque domes...
...Baltimore, for which Waters is still the perverse poet laureate, never looked lovelier. Watch the moon shimmer in a puddle, as a rat crawls through it. See Tracy triumphant, in her pink roach-patterned evening gown. See "Hairspray" too, on a double DVD (with "Pecker") that features Waters' ever-fabulous commentary. It's light and airy, but it will stick around: the first aerosol movie...
...Milky Way voyage of “Round the Bend” swings on lethargic cellos that vividly recall Sigur Ros and Nick Drake’s “River Man.” While this is surely the album’s most dejected song, the contented shimmer of slide guitars on “Guess I’m Doing Fine” is not much of an improvement: “It’s only lies that I’m livin’ / It’s only tears that...